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PAGE FOUR THEGAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925 ll Closing ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD We Are Retiring From Business in Heppner and our entire stock of Merchandise is being offered for quick disposal. In this stock are many items that you are needing right now, many others that you will need later; therefore you should be prompt in taking advantage of the tremendous savings offered you in this Closing-Out Sale. Sale Will Continue Until Stock Is Gone A partial listing of stock is given here; this will give you a hint as to the savings to be made on every article of merchan dise in our store. BRING ALONG YOUR CASH; IT WILL GO FAR HERE. SUGAR $7.00 25-lb. SACK $1.95 From our Grocery Department, we offer Special Inducements for CASH TRADE: Blue Rose Jap Rice, per pound 11c Kellogg's Corn Flakes, per package 10c St Clair's Certified Condensed Milk, per can 10c DISHES We have dinner plates, pie plates, cups and saucers, creamers, serving dishes, etc., a broken line containing many articles that you may need ALL LINES IN DRY GOODS AND FURNISHING DEPTS. MARKED DOWN FOR THIS SALE Men's Harvest Shoes - $2.00 $3.25 Harvest Shoes $2.75 $3.75 Harvest Shoes $3.25 $3.50 Work Shoes $3.00 $5.00 MenSs DresB Shoes $4.00 $6.00 Men's Dress Shoes $4.95 $10.00 Florsheim Shoes $5.50 to $7.50 J2.50 Men's "Comfort" Slippers $1.75 $5.00 Men's High Bootees, rubber $3-50 $3.75 Keds Basket Ball Shoes $2.90 $1.25 Ladies' Felt Slippers . 80c $2.50 Ladies' 2-buckle Storm Overshoes 50c $5.00 Men's Hats - ...$3.50 $6.00 Men's Hats - ..$4.00 $7.50 Men's Round-Up Hats $6.50 Athletic Union Suits, reduced to 90c Summer Weight Union Suits, fine quality $1.00 $5.00 Wright's Union Suits, winter weight $3.50 $3.50 Part Wool Union Suits - $2.50 $3.50 Flannel Top Shirts $2.50 Men's Big Yank Work Shirts $1.00 $1.25 Men's Work Gloves - 95c 25c Ginghams at 19c Yard 35c Ginghams at - 25e Yard 60c Ginghams at 45c Yard 25c Percales at - 16c Yard Cretonne, was 35c Now 25e Cretonne, was 50c Now 35c Jap Crepe . 25c Outing, was 35c Now 25c Bleached Sheeting, 9-4, was 75c .... Now 60c Lmgette, was 75c - Now 55c 44-Inch Indianhead - - 30c Table Damask 85c $1.10 Cotton Towling 18c Silk and Wool Yarn 45c Wool Yarn - 30c Palm Olive Cold Cream, was 60c .... Now 35c Palm Olive Vanishing rCeam, was 50c, .. Now 35c Combs, were 75c - Now 40c Brushes, were $1.75 Now $1.25 Tooth Brushes, were 25c Now 18c Talc Powder, was 25e Now 20e Children's Hose 18e to 30c Men's Leather Gloves kt prices ranging from 75e to $1.90 Leather Sleeve Vest $5.00 Leather Coats, were $15.00 $10.50 Pendleton Indian Robes $10.00 Pendleton Blankets, $15.00 grade $9.50 $3.50 and $4.00 Riding Breeches $2.00 Men's Dress Shirts, $2.50 grade $1.25 Men's Collars - 10c Men's Wool Sox, $1.00 grade 75c Men's Wool Sox, 76c grade 50c Men's Wool Sox, 50c grade 40c Men's Ties - 50e Boy's Union Suits - 75c Boy's Dress Shoes, $4.00 value $2.80 Boy Scout Shoes $2.00 Boy's Heavy Rubber-Soled Shoes, val ues $3.00 and $3.60 $2.00 3-lb. Cotton Batts $1.20 tt-lb. Cotton Batts 20c NOTIONS AT COST Sam-Hughes Co m. Jr CLOTHES PINS 7c 3 doz. in package Egg Beaters, from 25c to 35c Cream Whip and Mayonnaise Mixer, was 85c, now . - 55e GRANITEWARE DISH PANS, MILK PANS, COF- FEE POTS, WASH BASINS, TEA KETTLES, RICE BOILERS. 76c Tin Coffee Pots, 4-qt. 60c $1.15 Tin Coffffe Pot, 6-qt 85c $1.60 Tin Coffeepot, 8-qt $1.10 25c Graters 15e $1.25 8-qt. Stowpans 80c $1.50 17-qt. Dishpans ....TToc $1.00 14-qt. Dishpans 60c $1.25 Teakettles 80c $1.25 Water Buckets 80e $1.60 Tin Bread Bowls $1.00 $6.50 "De Lux Wash Boilers $4-60 $1.00 No. 0 Galvanised Wash Tubs 70e $1.00 No. 1 Galvanized Wash Tubs 75e $1.25 No. 2 Galvanised Wash Tubs 0c Quart Cups and Measures 10c One-Half Gallons 15c Milk Pans, 8-qt. 20c Aluminum Pie Pans 20c Tin Cake Pans e "Eieout" Cake Pans 10c "Eieout" Cake Pans, large 20c $1.60 Glass Water Pitch ers $100 $2.50 Carving Sets $1.00 BEHIND THE SCENES AT WASHINGTON (Continued from Page Three) Little Pennies and Loom Million. Behind the scenes at Washington it is felt that Calvin Coolidge could have no better talking point with the American people than government economy and tax reduction. He al ways links them together. His phrase in a previous economy speech that "I would rather talk about pennies and save them than talk about mil lions and save nothing' summarizes the whoie Coolidge economy scheme. He is not terrified by the fears of some of his political friends that the economy program can be carried too far and perhaps Injure the Republican Party, at next year's elections. Nor is the President impreed by the reports that business and trade have been injured by his economy pra gram. He contends that "each tax re duction has been followed by a re vival of business" and that 'if there is one thing above all others that will stimulate business, it is tax reduc tion. " In a terse statement of his position on the particular point, Mr. Coolidge adds: "If the government takes less, private business can have more. If constructive economy in Federal expenditure can be assured, it will be a stimulation to enterprise and investment," Time Coat of Golf and Ponies. The other day In Washington, at a private dinner of newspapermen, X heard the President explain why he rides an electric horse instead of one of the prancing steeds that scorch across the plains of Montana. You will be surprised to know, aa we were, that Mr. Coohdjre'a synthetie pony is part of his economy program. Will Uogers alleged that Coolidge rides an iron horte because it doesn't eat oats. The President destroyed this theory. He told us that he rides his mechanical nag because it eaves the time he would waste In ordinary horseback riding- He explained that his time is the country's time and that he does not ffel justified in squandering any of it in unnecessary exercise. He refrains from golf for the same reason. When he feels the need for the benefits that come from golf, Mr. Coolidge takes a walk. He says that it dots him just as much goud aa golf and economizes time. Sparkle of Grace Coolidge. No account of the hold of the Pre mdent on public esteem would be complete, without anting that in ac quiring it he has had an able and charming adjutant in the prson of Mrs. Cooltdge. Since Francis Folsom Cleveland shed the lustre of her per sonality upon the White House forty years ago. there has been no First Idy of the Lard mure beloved than Graft Good hut Coolidge. She Is the exact antithesis of her husband in temperment. He is cold and unemotional. She is vivacious and buoyant. She is as unspoiled as a girl and sparkles with a girl s nat ural enthusiasm. She has been a Spartan mother during this past year of personal grief, reaolutely refusing to wear her heart upon her sleeve, though all the world knows that her smiles on public occasions screen an inexpressible sorrow for the loss of her second-born. Aside from this tragedy theirs has been a marriage of surpassing hap piness, and today stands forth, in this incompatible age of ours, a shining example of clean and simple family life. Hughes and Borah. President Coloidge is not the only interesting figure behind the scenes at Washington, as he is, of course, by no means the greatest man who ever occupied the White House. Our public life sustained an eminent loss when Charles E. Hughes relinquished the secretaryship of state. My own conviction is that he resgined for two primary reasons first, a feeling that Mr. Coolidge henceforward it likely to be his own Minister of For eign Affairs; secondly, a disinclina tion on Mr. Hughes' part to collab orate with Mr. Borah, now chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign I Relations. Hughes and Borah do not see eye to eye on any of our out-1 standing foreign questions. They disagree on the World Court, on rec ognition of Soviet Russia, on the question of holding another disarm ament conference, and on other mat ters. Herbert Hoover's Engineering Mind. The retirement of Hughes leaves Hoover and Mellon as the strong fig ures in the Cabinet. An impression prevails that Her bert Hoover is now the paramount in fluence behind the Coolidge throne. Executive orders have recently trans ferred to the jurisdiction of the Sec retary of Commerce important gov ernment agencies like the Patent Office and the Bureau of Mines, both of which were formerly under the Secretary of the Interior. The fields in which Hoover la now supreme are almost innumerable. The President has a very high regard for his ca-j pacuy u aamimswrr $u mem i ficiently and skillfully. Hoover is still a young man. He will be only 51 years old next month. His friends are confident that another ten years will find him President of the United States. They feel that his mining engineering mind could be put to work effectively in the White House. Melloa's High Character. ' Andrew W. Mellon, I need not tell you bankers, la a great Secretary of the Treasury. He, too, has great suthority in the Coolidge high com mand, because of the universal re spect In whichthe Is held throughout the American business community. Mr. Mellon Is not only one of the richest men in the world, but one of the most modest. He seldom makes speeches. But as Senator Couzens, of Michigan, had occasion to learn, Mellon can hit hard in a controversy, whenever his facts and figures or his official honor are at stake. With the vast question of our Eu ropean debts, Secretary Mellon is now at grips. As chairman of the World War Debt Funding Commission, the negotiations for settlement of those debts will be mainly under his di rection. The government during the past few weeks has made substantial progress in inducing our European debtors to approach a settlement. Italy has already opened negotiations at Washington. Belgium will do so later in the summer. France and Czechoslovakia will follow suit early in the autumn. The Administration expects no early cash results, but it is hopeful of presenting Congress with concrete evidence that progress has been made. Dealing With Our Debtors. Our government's policy in these matters is well established. It will exercise no Shylockian pressure in any quarter. It desires to secure the formal recognition of the debts, rath er than immediate liquidation of them. If France, Italy and others re quire moratoriums or reduction of interest rates, the Administration and Congress are not likely to turn a deaf ear. But a cold shoulder will be given to any proposition of cancella tion of the debts, in part or in whole. On that score, Europe will find Amer ica standing pat. Europe cannot per form miracles, even though some of our people expect them. Civiliza tion could not suffer such a stagger ing blow as four years of war de livered It, and recover anything ap proximating its oldtime equilibrium in the brief span since the Armistice. We must make up our mind to be pa tient about the twelve billions that Allied Europe owes us. Dawes Dares to Denounce Palaver. I am sure you expect me to talk about the exploits of Vice-President Dawea. With the general purpose of his crusade to change the Senate rules you are familiar. He Is now in the midst of a nation-wide cam paign to make the country understand that it Is necessary to revise those rules in order that genuine majority power may prevail in ' the United States Senate. Opinion in the Senate itself will probably be found to be sufficiently strong to prevent the changes that Dawes advocates. But there is ample indication that the country at large sympathizes with his efforts to convert that palace of pa laver Into a body that will deliberate and legislate and not procrastinate. Dawes wants less decorum, and more decision In the Senate; less prerogative and more progress; less wind, and more wisdom; less time killing, and more time-filling. He does not desire arbitrarily to shackle free speech. He aims merely at increas ing the efficiency of the Senate, de stroying one-man power to block ma jority rule, and generally to inject common sense into the procedure of a body steeped In hide-bound tradi tions and a somewhat exaggerated conception of its own importance. Eventually His Cause Will Win. While there is widespread evidence of popular approval of Gen. Dawes' program to reduce hot air in the Sen ate, his prospects cannot be described as favorable. A count of noses dis closes that it will be exceedingly dif ficult, if not impossible, to marshal a majority in favor of changing the Senate rules on proposed lines. There is apparently a coalition of Republi can stalwarts and Progressives strong enough, with a solid Democratic op position, to prevent the revision that Dawes demands. Meantime he is carrying the war into what he calls the enemy's country. Between now and the congressional elections in 1926 the Vice-President intends to plead his cause in every state in which a Senator is to be elected. He relies upon the merits of His case and his dramatic method of presenting it, to accomplish the desired result eventually, if not now. Borah's Splendid Isolation. One other personality who Is very much behind the scenes at Washing ton and very often in the limelight in front of them, is the brilliant and distinguished Senator from Ida ho. William E, Borah was 60 year old the other day, but in looks, in vigor, in courage, and in fighting spirit he is one of the youngest men in American public life. Many of us differ with Borah's political views, but nearly all of un at Washington have unbounded respect and admir ation for his statesman-like qualities. He is easily the Demosthenes of Con gress. I would as soon have my schoolboy son study and memorize Borah on the American Constitution, as I heard him glorify it durnig the Warren debate in the Senate, at I would have my boy study and mem orize Burke In the House of . Com mons on the American Revolution. Borah has the reputation of being an irregular. Yet on major occasions at Washington in recent times he was more regular in supporting Cool idge Administration policies than Republican Senators whose regularity is their stock in trade, Borah was with the President on the soldiers' bonus and Bursum pension bills when so-called regulars were moving heav en and earth to pass them over the Coolidge veto. In his drive for econ omy, Coolidge has no more uncom promising supporter than Borah, Borah's political future is one of the Interesting speculations behind the scenes at Washington, Undoubt edly he would like to be President. Unquestionably he would command an immense personal following thru out the country. But Borah's defects are mainly those of a constitutional incapacity for team work, Borah Is not much of an organization man. He looks upon himself as his own organization. It has been said of him by a friendly critic that Borah "would rather be the whole of a defeat than a part of a victory." Japan Would be Friendly. Nothing has interested me so much in the west as a close-up of your views on the Japanese question. I find an inclination on the coast to consider exclusion a closed incident. I know that Congress and the Ad ministration would like to consider it a closed incident. But the trouble is that our Japanese friends are not inclined to look upon it that way. I am very certain that Japan does noi consider the Act of Congress, by which she feels a gross affront was offered to Japanese pride, an inci dent that is ended for all time. Every responsible utterance that emanates from Japan is that her people are bent upon removing some day, some how, what they call a blemish upon their national honor. Only yester day, speaking in the Middle West, Count Soyeshlma, a distinguished Japanese statesman now In this coun try, declared that Japan is fervently looking forward to the time when the wrong we did her will be righ,ted. But W e. Must Face Facta. Most of us in the Eait sympathize with the coast's desire for Japanese exclusion, but regret that Congress found it necessary to enact exclusion In the manner it did. Most of us thought that It wuold have been bet ter to make a concession to Japanese pride and bring about exclusion by diplomatic agreement with Japan agreement which would have accom plished our purpose while not of fending Japanese pride. But all that is history now. We face the future, not the past. I see no war-cloud on the Far Eastern hor izon. I see, on the contrary, a Japan for which good relations with this country are of the very breath of her life. But I also see In Japan, a proud, a militant, a military people, across whose heart and soul America has seared a deep scar. I believe the present temper of the Japanese gov ernment an4 people to be pacific and friendly toward us. But I would rather be a historian than a prophet as to what the future holds in that direction. We must be prepared for emergencies prepared on land, on sea and In the air, and prepared par ticularly on the Pacific Coast at Tongue Point and elsewhere. Voting As a Duty. Mr. President, I am gratified to have had the .opportunity of discuss ing with you even in this rambling fashion soma of the personalities and policies that dominate the scene at Washington. Too few of our people are Interested In Washington. 1 have often discovered, when leaving the disfranchised District of Columbia and entering the United States, that there is a widespread indifference toward public affairs among the rank and file of our people. That indif ference manifests Itself In the amaz ing apathy of the voters on election day. Last November, despite an in tensive drive to bring out the voUs, only a, fraction over 60 per cent of our enfranchised men and women took the trouble to go to the polls. In 17 states in other words, in more than one-third of the union fewer people voted in 1924 than in 1920. It is the public fashion to criticize congress and the men elected to con gress. It is the fashion to do so, even in Oregon, I find. But I submit to you that Congress is no better than we make it, and no worse than we deserve. A 60 per cent vote is not entitled to anything better than a 60 per cent congress, or a 60 per cent legislature, or a 60 per cent admin istration either in the state or the nation. Even Germany, a few weeks ago, when it elected Field Marshal von Hindenburg president, regsitered a consdierably higher percentage of her total vote than anything we are accustomed to in the United StateB. Voting, in my judgment, should be converted by law from a privelege in to a duty, and the violation of that duty should carry a penalty. Each Must Do His Part. So I close, Mr. President within the time limitations of the City Club, whose practice might well serve as an example to the United States Sen ate, I close with an appeal to you men and women of the West, now sit ting so firmly in the National polit ical saddle, to maintain your interest in public affairs. Our America is sail ing toward her appointed destination aboard the finest craft that ever sprang from the hands of political shipwrights. But no ship, no mat ter how splendidly constructed, can sail unless she is efficiently manned. The whole crew must take part in steering her, not a minority. We, the 115,000,000 sovereign peo ple of the republic, comprise that crew. To each and all of us Is en trusted the sacred task of piloting the ship of state. That means active, personal, regular participation in pol itics, and, above all, faithful per formance of our duty on election day. Ours alone will be the responsibility if the American ship of state is de flected from the channels which lead to the harbor of our highest hopes. Frank Harwood returned on Sunday night from Portland, having spent several days in the city on business. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNTING. Notice is hereby given that W. E. Pruyn, administrator of the estate of T. R. Gaynor, deceased, has filed with the County Court of Morrow County, Oregon, his final account as administrator of such estate and that the court has fixed Monday, the 81st day of August, 1925, as the time, and the County Court Room in the Court House at Heppner, Oregon, as the place for hearing such account and of objections thereto and for the final settlement and closing of said .es tate. W. E. PRUYN, Administrator. PLEASE SETTLE UP. Having lost all my business In the recent fire, I find myself badly In need of funds that I may pay those whom I owe. I am therefore request ing that all those knowing themselves indebted to me will make an effort to settle with me in full or In part immediately. I shall greatly appre ciate your help now. HENRY SCHWARZ, Peoples Cnnh Market, Heppner. FOLKS IN OUR TOWN Oh! Did She Bluth 7 By Edward McCuIIough AUTOCASTER aU- T I'LL BE OlStfT cuftuv sPEAtoner j 7 -to eo fjnO ( with voo - M WHAT DO VOU ELBAHoa? 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